Comments on: Hello Leslie http://urbanhennery.com/2007/08/23/hello-leslie/ Tales of a country girl and her hens. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:46:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: high hopes gardens http://urbanhennery.com/2007/08/23/hello-leslie/#comment-71 high hopes gardens Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:13:49 +0000 http://urbanhennery.com/2007/08/23/hello-leslie/#comment-71 My wife and I just presented a Sunday Service at our church around local food - with readings by Wendell Berry about local economies, Micheal Pollan about the meaning of local, and Barbara Kingsolver about indulgence and delayed gratification. The thoughts that resonated the most with those in attendance were those that offfered permission not to eat locally 100%. For example, we invoke the "Marco Polo" rule to allow traditionally traded goods like coffee, tea, olive oil, and chocolate. We also noted that if everyone in our town decided to eat locally, there just plain wouldn't be enough food. So we encouraged people to jump in one step closer - make one more local meal a week, can all your applesauce for a year from a local orchard, plant three tomato plants next spring. Hopefully, the production can rise hand-in-hand with the demand. My wife and I just presented a Sunday Service at our church around local food - with readings by Wendell Berry about local economies, Micheal Pollan about the meaning of local, and Barbara Kingsolver about indulgence and delayed gratification. The thoughts that resonated the most with those in attendance were those that offfered permission not to eat locally 100%.

For example, we invoke the “Marco Polo” rule to allow traditionally traded goods like coffee, tea, olive oil, and chocolate. We also noted that if everyone in our town decided to eat locally, there just plain wouldn’t be enough food. So we encouraged people to jump in one step closer - make one more local meal a week, can all your applesauce for a year from a local orchard, plant three tomato plants next spring. Hopefully, the production can rise hand-in-hand with the demand.

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